Because I fear that America is sinking into the mire of national debt and government dependency, I testified in favor of work requirements for the food stamp program at a Senate hearing on the Farm Bill in April. Few offered similar arguments, and most gave impassioned speeches about the need ...
One of the luxuries of democracy is that we don’t have to listen. Or we can listen and hear what we want to hear. We can find resonance in dissonance, or we can hear flat notes. That is the story of the climate crisis, which is here. We have been warned over and over, sometimes as gently ...
Democratic lawmakers have introduced a bill restricting tax breaks for corporate investors buying large quantities of homes. If passed, the Stop Predatory Investing Act would prohibit investors who acquire 50 or more single-family homes for rental purposes from deducting interest or ...
Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew had never gotten along well. It likely didn’t pain the president much to acquiesce in the ousting of his vice president over illegal kickbacks while the president while struggled to keep his own job. It was 1973, and Nixon still gave every indication that he ...
Although Gerald R. Ford was never elected as vice president or president and served for only two-and-a-half years, didn’t get the United States involved in many foreign adventures, and inconsistently muddled through in combatting the stagflation created by his two predecessors, he was a far ...
When Rep. Chuy Garcia, D-Illinois, learned about the International Monetary Fund’s surcharge policy, it felt familiar: “To me, this looks like the business model of payday lenders here in Chicago, not an economic development agency.” The IMF is the lender of last resort to countries ...